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From: Shrirang Sahasrabudhe
Date: Mon, Aug 21 2006 10:50PM
Subject: are there any accessibility testing best practices
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Hi all,
Are there any best practices followed in accessibility testing area?
I am curious to know this because so far I have come across best practices only for design and development.
Thanks
Shri

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From: Sam Mignano - Analyst
Date: Tue, Aug 22 2006 3:00AM
Subject: RE: are there any accessibility testing best practicesHI Shri
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Hi Shri
I am not sure if there are official best practices outlined anywhere -
but we recommend our clients use WAI as a guideline not a destination,
and include user testing as part of any website audit they do, that
includes testers with a range of disabilities. This enables the client
to strive for usable accessibility not just technical accessibility.
We have a 193 checkpoint audit that our clients websites are tested
against, covering usability, accessibility, validation, best practise,
SEO optimisation and online marketing. Along with this we do a full
automated test, and user testing with our team of testers who have a
wide range of disabilities and additional needs, and who use a variety
of browsing methods.
We prefer to look at accessibility testing as part of a bigger picture -
aiming for web effectiveness - so that people don't end up with just
another website that has ticked a few boxes on an automated checking
tool for accessibility
I hope that helps
Best wishes
Sam Mignano
Beyond Metrix
www.beyondmetrix.com

From: zara
Date: Tue, Aug 22 2006 10:40AM
Subject: RE: are there any accessibility testing best practices
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> Hi all,
> Are there any best practices followed in accessibility testing area?
> I am curious to know this because so far I have come across best practices
> only for design and development.
> Thanks
> Shri

Hi,

The Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM) may be of some use to you. As their Web site explains, the UWEM is the EU-harmonised assessment methodology for Web accessibility, based on W3C/WAI. UWEM is the result of a joint effort between 23 European organisations working through the Web Accessibility Benchmarking (WAB) Cluster. The aim is to ensure that evaluation tools and methods developed for global monitoring or for local evaluations are compatible and coherent among themselves and with WAI. The UWEM provides an evaluation procedure consisting of a system of principles and practices for expert and automatic evaluation of Web accessibility for humans and machine interfaces.

Unified Web Evaluation Methodology version 1.0 intro page :

http://www.wabcluster.org/uwem1/

(The methodology document itself is only available in pdf for the moment. Hopefully, they will make it available in html soon, as they did for version 0.5.)

Best regards,

Catherine

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www.catherine-roy.net

From: Erik Ladinsky
Date: Wed, Aug 23 2006 5:50AM
Subject: RE: are there any accessibility testing best practices
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Catherine,
Hello. I read the post below, went to the site and downloaded the pdf. I'm reading it now, but am curious as to why the group has chosen to not tag the document. While it is indeed mostly text there are many lists and tables. Thanks.

Warm Regards,
Erik

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> From: zara < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:36 AM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List' < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Subject: RE: [WebAIM] are there any accessibility testing best practices
>
> > Hi all,
> > Are there any best practices followed in accessibility testing area?
> > I am curious to know this because so far I have come across best practices
> > only for design and development.
> > Thanks
> > Shri
>
> Hi,
>
> The Unified Web Evaluation Methodology (UWEM) may be of some use to you. As their Web site explains, the UWEM is the EU-harmonised assessment methodology for Web accessibility, based on W3C/WAI. UWEM is the result of a joint effort between 23 European organisations working through the Web Accessibility Benchmarking (WAB) Cluster. The aim is to ensure that evaluation tools and methods developed for global monitoring or for local evaluations are compatible and coherent among themselves and with WAI. The UWEM provides an evaluation procedure consisting of a system of principles and practices for expert and automatic evaluation of Web accessibility for humans and machine interfaces.
>
> Unified Web Evaluation Methodology version 1.0 intro page :
>
> http://www.wabcluster.org/uwem1/
>
> (The methodology document itself is only available in pdf for the moment. Hopefully, they will make it available in html soon, as they did for version 0.5.)
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Catherine
>
>
>
> --
> Catherine Roy, consultante
>
> www.catherine-roy.net
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Wed, Aug 23 2006 8:00AM
Subject: Re: are there any accessibility testing best practices
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The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign is developing a set of best
practices for web accessibility and two free tools to help people verify the
use of the best practices.

HTML Web Accessibility Best Practices
http://html.cita.uiuc.edu/

Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension
http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu

Functional Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu

Jon

On 8/21/06, Shrirang Sahasrabudhe < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Are there any best practices followed in accessibility testing area?
> I am curious to know this because so far I have come across best practices
> only for design and development.
> Thanks
> Shri
>
>
> ***********************************************************
> If you try, you risk failure. If you don't, you ensure it....I try.
> Shrirang Sahasrabudhe,
> Pune, India.
> Phone: 0091-020-4227558.
>
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From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Wed, Aug 23 2006 8:10AM
Subject: Re: are there any accessibility testing best practices
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I've just had a look at the Functional Web Accessibility Evaluation
Tool - in the future, are you likely to be saying at what point the
site has failed?
For example, it tells me that after the H1, there are 16 header
elements, of which one is nested improperly.
The H1 is pretty near the top!

It would be useful to know where the problems are, so that I can think
about how I can fix them. As it's a blog, some things are rather
complex & it might be a case of swapping templates - and it's useful
to know if it's something I've done, or something they've done.

On 8/23/06, Jon Gunderson < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign is developing a set of best
> practices for web accessibility and two free tools to help people verify the
> use of the best practices.
>
> HTML Web Accessibility Best Practices
> http://html.cita.uiuc.edu/
>
> Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension
> http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu
>
> Functional Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
> http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu
>
> Jon
>
>
>

Emma
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Blog: http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/

From: Emma Duke-Williams
Date: Wed, Aug 23 2006 8:20AM
Subject: Re: are there any accessibility testing best practices
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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Wed, Aug 23 2006 8:40AM
Subject: Re: are there any accessibility testing best practices
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One of the issues that has come up with FAE [1] is that a developer may create an accessible template, but then a user can enter their own HTML through some type of editing intereface (in your case a blog).

We do plan to add more features to make it easier for developers to locate problems. So you will be most likely be able to do this in a future version.

But you can use the Mozilla/Firefox accessibility extension[2] to look at the header structure of the page and see through the list of major/minor topics where the problem is.

Jon

[1] Functional Accessibility Evaluator
http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu/

[2] Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension
http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu/

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:03:37 +0100
>From: "Emma Duke-Williams" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] are there any accessibility testing best practices
>To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>
>I've just had a look at the Functional Web Accessibility Evaluation
>Tool - in the future, are you likely to be saying at what point the
>site has failed?
>For example, it tells me that after the H1, there are 16 header
>elements, of which one is nested improperly.
>The H1 is pretty near the top!
>
>It would be useful to know where the problems are, so that I can think
>about how I can fix them. As it's a blog, some things are rather
>complex & it might be a case of swapping templates - and it's useful
>to know if it's something I've done, or something they've done.
>
>
>
>On 8/23/06, Jon Gunderson < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>> The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign is developing a set of best
>> practices for web accessibility and two free tools to help people verify the
>> use of the best practices.
>>
>> HTML Web Accessibility Best Practices
>> http://html.cita.uiuc.edu/
>>
>> Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension
>> http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu
>>
>> Functional Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
>> http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>
>
>Emma
>--
>Blog: http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/
>
>
>

Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
Director of IT Accessibility Services
Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES)
and
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES)

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From: zara
Date: Wed, Aug 23 2006 10:20AM
Subject: RE: are there any accessibility testing best practices
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> Hello. I read the post below, went to the site and downloaded the pdf.
> I'm reading it now, but am curious as to why the group has chosen to not
> tag the document. While it is indeed mostly text there are many lists and
> tables. Thanks.

Erik,

I cannot say as I was not involved in this initiative. Hopefully, the html version will be available soon.

Best regards,

Catherine

--
Catherine Roy, consultante

www.catherine-roy.net